Tajikistan - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Tajikistan was 71.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.30 in 2020 and a minimum value of 50.61 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 50.61
1961 50.93
1962 51.24
1963 51.54
1964 51.85
1965 52.17
1966 52.50
1967 52.85
1968 53.21
1969 53.60
1970 54.01
1971 54.43
1972 54.85
1973 55.27
1974 55.68
1975 56.04
1976 56.35
1977 56.60
1978 56.80
1979 56.95
1980 57.11
1981 57.31
1982 57.60
1983 57.98
1984 58.41
1985 58.85
1986 59.18
1987 59.36
1988 59.34
1989 59.14
1990 58.82
1991 58.48
1992 58.21
1993 58.10
1994 58.19
1995 58.50
1996 59.00
1997 59.65
1998 60.38
1999 61.16
2000 61.97
2001 62.81
2002 63.65
2003 64.50
2004 65.31
2005 66.08
2006 66.77
2007 67.38
2008 67.91
2009 68.36
2010 68.74
2011 69.06
2012 69.34
2013 69.61
2014 69.87
2015 70.14
2016 70.40
2017 70.65
2018 70.88
2019 71.10
2020 71.30

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Life expectancy at birth used here is the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future. It reflects the overall mortality level of a population, and summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year. It is calculated in a period life table which provides a snapshot of a population's mortality pattern at a given time. It therefore does not reflect the mortality pattern that a person actually experiences during his/her life, which can be calculated in a cohort life table. High mortality in young age groups significantly lowers the life expectancy at birth. But if a person survives his/her childhood of high mortality, he/she may live much longer. For example, in a population with a life expectancy at birth of 50, there may be few people dying at age 50. The life expectancy at birth may be low due to the high childhood mortality so that once a person survives his/her childhood, he/she may live much longer than 50 years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality